Resorts and Ports European Seaside Towns since 1700

by Borsay, Peter; Walton, John K.

• ISBN13: 9781845411978
• ISBN10: 1845411978
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-14
• Publisher: Channel View Publications

Summary

Resorts and Ports draws together a group of case-studies which for the fi rst time explore the changing relationships between port and resort activities in a cross-section of European maritime settings over three centuries. The book will interest academics in tourism studies, history, geography and cultural studies, as well as providing essential information and analysis for policy makers in coastal regeneration.

Author Biography

Peter Borsay is a Professor in the Department of History and Welsh History at Aberystwyth University and has published widely in the areas of British urban and leisure history since the 18th century, including the history of spas and seaside resorts.John K. Walton is an IKERBASQUE Research Professor in the Department of Contemporary History, University of the Basque Country UPV/ EHU, Bilbao. He has published extensively and internationally on tourism and identity, especially with regard to coastal towns, and edits the Journal of Tourism History.

Table of Contents

1. Peter Borsay and John K. Walton: Introduction: the Resort-Port Relationship

2. Allan Brodie: Towns of ‘Health and Mirth': the First Seaside Resorts, 1730-1769

3. Jan Hein Furnée: A Dutch idyll? Scheveningen as a Seaside Resort, Fishing Village, and Port, c. 1700-1900

4. David Hussey: ‘From the Temple of Hygeia to the Sordid Devotees of Pluto'. The Hotwell and Bristol: Resort and Port in the Eighteenth Century.

5. Fred Gray: Three Views of Brighton as a Resort

6. Peter Borsay: From Port to Resort: Tenby and Narratives of Transition, 1760-1914

7. Louise Miskell: A Town Divided? Sea-bathing, Dock-building, and Oyster-fishing in Nineteenth-century Swansea

8. John K. Walton: Port and Resort: Symbiosis and Conflict in ‘Old Whitby', England, since 1880

9. Berit Eide Johnsen: Recycled Maritime Culture and Landscape: Various Aspects of Nineteenth-century Shipping and Fishing Industries to Twentieth-century Tourism in Southern Norway

10. Guy Saupin: Gijón: From Asturian Regional Port and Industrial City, to Touristic and Cultural Centre for the European Atlantic Arc, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

11. Simo Laakkonen and Karina Vasilevska: From a Baltic Village to a Leading Health resort: Reminiscences of the Social History of Jurmala, Latvia

12. Jason Wood: From Port to Resort: Art, Heritage, and Identity in the Regeneration of Margate